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Biomedical Ethics

A growing field of contemporary ethical inquiry, bioethics grapples with the unique ethical quandaries emerging in the light of new biotechnologies (affecting both human and non-human forms of life), the universal need for health care, and public health concerns at large. Topics include birth and reproductive justice, the impacts of racism on health and health care, and the implications of various approaches to bioethics for those living with disabilities (a group which may well include all of us at some time in our lives).

Introduction to Political Theory

A study of the answers that philosophers from Plato to Marx have given to the question, “How should political life be organized?” This question leads us to consider the related problems of justice, power, equality, freedom and human nature. The course includes discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy. Also offered as GOVT 103 and through European Studies and Peace Studies.

JSTOR

Indexes key scholarship in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.  Contains significant full text of books, book chapters, journal articles book reviews, pamphlets, and many primary sources.